West Evans makes it two years in a row
by winning the Ron Otto Memorial Race
for NMRA TQ Midgets.

J.D. Brown wins the Supercharger Mini
Dwarf Car Main.

Garrett Egan wins the Piston Mini Dwarf
Car Main.

(May 20th,
2013, Cliff Morgan, Ventura Raceway)
OXNARD, CA - Saturday night June 15 saw
another night of exciting short track
racing took place at Ventura Raceway.
Racing across the board was some of the
best seen in the 2013 season. Once again
fans and teams were treated to fast and
furious racing on Ventura's new red clay
track.

Troy Rutherford made it two in a row in
VRA main event action. He started fourth
in the field and took the lead on lap 6
from Greg Taylor and went on to take the
30 lap feature over a hard charging
Taylor who did everything he could to
try to catch him. Following Rutherford
and Taylor across the line were Austin
DeBlauw, Tom Hendricks and Guy Woodwaed.
Three heat race were run with wins being
taken by
Austin DeBlauw in heat one, Troy
Rutherford in heat two and Guy Woodward
in heat three. The night's racing ended
with Tom Hendrick remaining in the point
lead by 20 points over Guy Woodward.

Eight VRA Senior Sprints were on hand to
run their portion of the night's racing.
The heat race went to past series
champion, Rob Kershaw. Their 20 lap main
event went to season point leader Clif
Warren. In the main event Warren took
the lead on lap one and never looked
back to take his seventh win in a row.
Warren led Rob Kershaw, Chris Meredith,
Wally PAnkratz, and to the finish line.
After seven races in 2013, Warren leads
Meredith by 210 points.

VRA Dwarf Car raced in two classes. In
the Pros, Johnny Conley took heat one,
Eric Moore took heat two and Curt Cook.
Their 20 lap main was a hard fought 20
lap event that saw Hanah Msyhew lead lap
1 to 6 before Curt Cook [passed her to
go on to take the win over Johnny
Conley, Cody Majors, Mayhew, and Jason
Horton. In Senior action, Mike Lewis
took their heat race. Mike Neal took the
main event for his second main in a row
over Bill VanPraag, George Calvo, Lee
Majors and Brent Stevens.. In the season
point races, Johnny Conley takes over
the Pro point lead. In Seniors Mike Neal
continues to lead.

VRA Focus Midgets ran one heat race won
by Wally Pankratz. Pankratz then came
back to take the win in their 20 lap
main as he battled Austin Blair and
Brennam Rogers to get the win, followed
by Alexander Bissett and Robert Sumpler..
He led Brennan Rogers and Robert Sumpler
to the finish line.

NMRA TQ Midgets raced Saturday night in
the Ron Otto Memorial Event. The 25 lap
main event win went to West Evans
followed by Anthony Lopicollo, Don
Kiefer, Bill Grisson and Chris Thomas.
Their two heat races went to Kenny Wiley
in heat one and Anthony Lopicollo in
heat two.

The adult final group racing Saturday
night was the VRA Sport Compacts. Point
leader and 2012 series champ Zack
Peterson took another win over James
Adler, Mike Stanford, Mira Cook and
Andrew Greiman. Peterson also took
Saturday's eight lap heat race.

VRA Kids classes raced in two divisions,
Mini Dwarf Pistons and Superchargers. In
Piston action the win 12 lap feature
went to Garret Egan over Zack Chavez and
Dylan Neal. Zack Chavez took their heat
race. In Supercharger action, J D Brown
took another win over Bailey Hendricks,
Will Moms and Isaac Marshall. Their heat
race also went to point leader J D
Brown.